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Where We Arrive

Where We Arrive

By Thomas Mitchell

In his third collection of poetry, Thomas Mitchell celebrates life more powerfully and more enthusiastically than ever before, reaffirming our connectedness with one another and with the natural world. His work is marked with a...

ISBN: 9781733340083

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Ticker

Ticker

By Mark Neely

Mark Neely’s third collection, Ticker, follows the life of its main character, Bruce, as he navigates marriage, children, aging parents, politics, race, religion, global catastrophe, and the irrelevance of middle age. Throughout the book the...

ISBN: 9781733340090

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Carbon

Carbon

By Svetlana Lavochkina

Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine—Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe’s east: Svetlana Lavochkina sends readers on a double odyssey with two adventurers, the fiery blacksmith...

ISBN: 9781733340045

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Mountain and Flower

Mountain and Flower

The Selected Poems of Mykola Vorobiov

By Mykola Vorobiov. Translated by Maria G. Rewakowicz

Mountain and Flower is Mykola Vorobiov’s second book in English translation. Translator Maria Rewakowicz presents a selection of poems spanning more than fifty years of Vorobiov’s poetic craft, beginning with poems from his first collection...

ISBN: 9781733340052

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My Mother’s Red Ford

My Mother’s Red Ford

New and Selected Poems (1986–2019)

By Roy Bentley

My Mother’s Red Ford represents Roy Bentley’s first six books, four of which won or distinguished themselves in national competitions. According to Kate Fox, writing of Walking with Eve in the Loved City: “Readers of...

ISBN: 9781733340069

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The River People

The River People

By Polly Buckingham

The poems in Polly Buckingham’s debut collection, The River People, move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political. The speaker in these poems is...

ISBN: 9781733340076

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Sleeping and Waking

Sleeping and Waking

By Albert Goldbarth

ISBN: 9781733340014

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Though the Walls Are Lit

Though the Walls Are Lit

By Emily Holt

Though the Walls Are Lit considers the Irish tradition of hunger strikes and vocal lament. Weaving together hymns, canticles, and blues riffs, Holt configures the page as a threshold where poet and stranger may meet...

ISBN: 9780999199497

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Neighborhood of Gray Houses

Neighborhood of Gray Houses

By Derek Annis

The poems in Derek Annis’s debut collection, Neighborhood of Gray Houses, wander through a landscape darkened by childhood abandonment and loss, before coming to rest in a home illuminated by new life and cautious optimism....

ISBN: 9781733340007

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Don't Touch the Bones

By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2019.

Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s Don’t Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world’s, a nation’s, and a family’s history.

ISBN: 9781733340021

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A New Orthography

A New Orthography

Poems

By Serhiy Zhadan. Translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost Horse Press’s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of...

ISBN: 9781733340038

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Pray to the Empty Wells

Pray to the Empty Wells

By Iryna Shuvalova. Translated by Olena Jennings

Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The forty-four poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s forthcoming book of Ukrainian-language poems of the same...

ISBN: 9780999199480

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Radiation King

Radiation King

By Jason Gray

Ten years in the making, Radiation King, the second full-length collection by poet Jason Gray, takes us to the beginning and the possible futures of the atomic world we created at the start of the...

ISBN: 9780999199435

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Sweetclover

Sweetclover

By Shann Ray

Grounded in the physical while asking metaphysical questions, the poems in Sweetclover detail love, wilderness, fracture, and fusion. They speak of wildflowers, the slant of a collarbone, the flight feathers of predatory birds, and the...

ISBN: 9780999199459

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American Loneliness

American Loneliness

By Roy Bentley

American Loneliness is peopled with the famous and the not-so-famous. It is a book tenanted by the Wright Brothers and Nettie Potter Bentley, Joseph Kennedy and James Brown and Jay Gatsby. America, as presented, bests...

ISBN: 9780999199473

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Pantheon

Pantheon

By Philip Memmer

Philip Memmer’s Pantheon is a collection of dramatic monologues written from the perspectives of imaginary gods. But these are not the usual mythological suspects: the voices here include such unlikely deities as the God of...

ISBN: 9780999199442

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Smokes

Smokes

By Yuri Izdryk. Translated by Roman Ivashkiv and Erin Moure

Yuri Izdryk’s poetry explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and even God. All his poems operate with an indefatigable play with language that encompasses incessant punning rhymes, Joycean multilingual puns,...

ISBN: 9780999199466

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein's Children

By Bruce Bond

Frankenstein ‘s Children explores Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a lens into contemporary loneliness and hunger, fantasies of reanimation and artificial thought born of a dread that would deny or master the necessities that define us,...

ISBN: 9780999199411

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Terribly in Love

Terribly in Love

By Tautvyda Marcinkeviciute. Translated by Julie Kane, H. L. Hix, and Jonas Zdanys

This bilingual edition is the first English-language collection by the most celebrated woman poet in Lithuania today. Tautvyda Marcinkeviciute’s voice is both cool and ferocious, as one might expect from the official translator of Sylvia...

ISBN: 9780998196398

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I'm Half of Your Heart

New and Selected Poems, 1967–2017

By Julian Kornhauser. Translated by Piotr Florczyk

In more than seventy poems gathered in I’m Half of Your Heart: Selected Poems, 1967–2017, we encounter a poet who is as politically outspoken as he is lyrically private. Fascinated by the quotidian bric-a-brac, keenly...

ISBN: 9780999199428

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